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Since mid-2018, Cedefop’s online job vacancies data retrieval system has collected around 32 million unique vacancy postings in Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy and UK. Their labour markets equal around two-thirds of employment in the EU. 79% of the online job vacancies has been collected from private online job portals, 15% from public portals … Continue reading →

Canadian businesses reported 247,000 job vacancies in November, an increase of 27,000 compared with November 2013. There were 4.8 unemployed people for every job vacancy, down from 5.6 a year earlier. This decline in the ratio was the result of both fewer unemployed people and more job vacancies. The national job vacancy rate was 1.6% in November, up from 1.5% recorded 12 months earlier. via The Daily — Job vacancies … Continue reading →

After basically holding steady for the past two years, Canada’s private sector vacancy rate is beginning to creep upward. On a seasonally adjusted basis, 2.7 per cent of jobs lay vacant in these businesses—a tenth of a point higher than in the second quarter. Modest increases were seen in most business size categories. In total, … Continue reading →

In July, there were 223,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses, relatively unchanged compared with July 2013. There were 6.2 unemployed people for every job vacancy, little changed from 12 months earlier. The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in July, similar to the rate observed a year earlier. via The Daily — Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in July 2014.

In addition to employment and unemployment figures, data on the efficiency of the labor market offer more clues to its health. One way to determine this is to examine the degree of labor mismatch occurring. The classic illustration demonstrating mismatch is the Beveridge curve, which shows an intuitive relationship between the rate of job vacancies … Continue reading →

Canadian businesses reported 235,000 job vacancies in June, up 15,000 compared with 12 months earlier. For every job vacancy, there were 5.8 unemployed people, down slightly from 6.2 in June 2013, the result of more job vacancies. Unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio declined in Ontario and British Columbia In Ontario, there were 7.1 unemployed people for every job vacancy, down from 8.4 in June 2013, as there were more job vacancies in the … Continue reading →

It took nine months of detective work by economists, journalists, social media sleuths and investigators at the Parliamentary Budget Office to solve the mystery of Canada’s missing job vacancies. Last week auditor general Mike Ferguson made it official: the federal government was using unreliable statistics to support its claim that Canada had plenty of jobs … Continue reading →

The Conservative government has quietly adjusted its labour data to ignore job postings from Kijiji and similar websites, a change that essentially erases the dire warnings of labour shortages that Ottawa has used as justification for expanding the controversial temporary foreign worker program. With these sites removed from the source data, the government’s latest labour … Continue reading →

There were 220,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses in November, a decline of 22,000 compared with November 2012. There were 5.6 unemployed people for every job vacancy compared with 5.2 one year earlier. The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in November, down from 1.6% 12 months earlier. Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at The Daily — Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in November 2013. Related … Continue reading →

In October, there were 231,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses, a decline of 37,000 compared with October 2012. There were 5.7 unemployed people for every job vacancy, up from 5.1 one year earlier, as the decline in vacancies was at a faster pace than the decline in the number of unemployed people. The national job vacancy rate was 1.6% in October, down from 1.8% 12 months earlier. Chosen … Continue reading →

AUSTRALIA’S supply of vacant jobs is dwindling, making it harder to find work than it has been in years. New results from the only comprehensive national survey of vacancies show they have slid 8 per cent in the past year, undoing most of the gains since the global financial crisis. Australia had only 166,000 vacant … Continue reading →

Canadian businesses had 264,000 job vacancies in July, an increase of 32,000 from July 2011. For every job vacancy, there were 5.3 unemployed people, down from 6.0 in July 2011. The decline in this ratio of unemployment to job vacancies was mainly a result of the increase in job vacancies. The national job vacancy rate was 1.8% in the three-month period ending in July, up from 1.6% … Continue reading →

THE small rise in the number of job vacancies reported today is not enough to provide real hope that a solid pickup in jobs growth is under way… Data from the three-monthly survey by Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed the number of job vacancies across the nation rose by 0.3 per cent between November … Continue reading →

JOB vacancies up for grabs in the Philippines could hit 2 million this year in the five hottest fields: information technology, engineering, finance, sales and customer service, according to internet recruitment web-based firm Jobstreet.com. Jobstreet.com said in 2011, there were 2.7 million job vacancies, of which 40 percent were posted by the Malaysian-listed firm. Yoda … Continue reading →